Distillers Country guides / Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea
A one-page guide to Equatorial Guinea for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Ciudad de la Paz (capital since January 2026); Bata is the largest city
- Official languages
- Spanish, French, Portuguese
- Currency
- Central African CFA franc (XAF)
- Time zone
- UTC+1
- Area
- 28,052 km²
People
- Population
- 1.9 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 2.4% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 71.6%
- Aged under 15
- 37.1%
- Aged 65 and over
- 3.8%
- Life expectancy
- 63.9 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$12.8 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$6,615 (2025)
- Economic growth
- -5.85% (2025)
- Inflation
- 2.92% (2024)
Climate
Tropical with wet and dry seasons that differ by region: June to August is dry on the mainland (Río Muni) and wet on Bioko, and the reverse December to February. Malabo ranges about 16-33 C; rainfall is very high (about 1,930 mm at Malabo).
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 21 (per Wikipedia table)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 6.56 litres of pure alcohol (2020)
- What people drink
- Beer 68%, wine 14%, spirits 18% (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Equatorial Guinea; World Bank Open Data API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); Our World in Data / WHO GHO alcohol per capita; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.